About me

My name is Matteo, I was born in Italy in 1985 in a small but beautiful village in the Garda Lake district called San Felice del Benaco.

Beautiful Alpine-Lake landscape, a few kilometres from my hometown

After getting my high-school diploma with a major in humanistic and classical studies, I shifted my interest towards science by pursuing a Bachelor and a Master Degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Trento in Italy.

After graduation I worked at the same University as a Postgraduate Researcher on a project funded by Piemonte region, involving a numerical model to forecast floodplain inundation in Ivrea, a small town in North-West of Italy.

Zürich – Rooftop view (on the left the domes of ETH and the University of Zürich)

During the second year of my PhD I spent one semester as a Visiting Graduate Student at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada), thanks to a Doc.Mobility scholarship from the SNSF. In the Geography Department, I was under the supervision of Prof. Marwan Hassan, member of my doctoral committee.

I have worked for a few months as a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the Hydrology Group at ETH Zurich, in the context of the EU-funded project DAFNE which aims to build a robust Decision-Analytic Framework to address the Water-Energy-Food Nexus issues in two African basins (the Omo river and the Zambezi river).

Then, after being awarded an Early PostDoc.Mobility Fellowship from the SNSF, I moved back to Vancouver where I am currently a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the Geography Department at UBC, studying the effect of unsteady flows and different sediment supply regimes on the morphology of mountain streams.